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Faraday Unveils 28HPC USB 3.1 PHY and 40LP Type-C PHY with PD Controller

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Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced that the availability of its USB 3.1 PHY on UMC 28HPC process, as well as the silicon-verified USB 3.1 Type-C PHY with USB-PD 2.0 support on UMC 40LP process. Faraday introduced the industry’s first USB

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RISC-V: Reducing Risk for both the Consumer and the Supplier

Last week was the Linley Processors Conference held in Santa Clara, CA. where vendors announced new products and technical details about new network architectures, security implementations, and novel memory devices were disclosed. Session 8 was titled “Open Instruction Sets” and featured a “pro” presentation by Krste Asanović, Professor, University of

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IP-Maker NVMe IP, Ready for Persistent Memories

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IP-Maker, the leading storage IP startup, will exhibit at Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA, on August 8 to 10. The next generation of non-volatile memories comes with an access time in the microsecond range. The NVM Express (NVMe) protocol has been introduced in order to minimize the protocol

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Semiconductor Yield Management and 5nm Chip Construction

The talk of the town these days in the semiconductor industry isthe IBM’s lead in the research and development that has led to creation of a new type of transistors,the smallest ever 5nm construction, for the silicon based processor chips. This marvel by the researchers at IBM aims to revolutionize

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Presto Engineering Announces Management Expansion

Presto Engineering, Inc., an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, announces a management expansion: Cedric Mayor has been named Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Martin Kingdon has been appointed VP Sales.
 
“We have experienced growing demand for IoT and related turnkey production &

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White Paper: Is an ASIC Right for Your Next IoT Product?

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This whitepaper from Presto Engineering, Inc., looks at factors that determine potential benefits of an ASIC solution relative to a discrete alternative and discusses ways to reduce costs and increase value by managing risk and complexity.
 
Introduction
 
Application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are cheaper and easier to

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Cellphone IC Sales Will Top Total Personal Computing in 2017

The ongoing slump in shipments of standard personal computers along with the drop-off in tablets are setting the stage for cellphone IC sales to finally surpass integrated circuit revenues in total personal computing systems this year, based on new forecasts in the recently released update of IC Insights’ 2017 IC Market

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What is an IP (Intellectual Property) core in Semiconductors?

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An  Intellectual Property (IP) core in Semiconductors is a reusable unit of logic or functionality or a cell or a layout design  that is normally developed  with the  idea of  licencing to multiple vendor for  using as building blocks in  different chip designs.
 
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Silvaco to Acquire SoC Solutions

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Silvaco, Inc. today announced it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire SoC Solutions.  Founded in 2000, SoC Solutions is a privately held company providing semiconductor IP and services located in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area.  With a long history of designing SoCs with embedded microprocessors, the experienced

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Presto Engineering Launches New Image Sensor Turnkey Services

Presto Engineering Inc., an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, now offers a turnkey industrialization service for image sensors. The industry has experienced an increase in demand for these sensors, which are often used in devices that connect to the internet (IoT).
 
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